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14 Oct 2021 The American Families Plan: Will You Pay More?

Posted at 13:43h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, MSFP

The American Families Plan (AFP) is not yet law but we know what's in it, at least in its current form. (I wrote a summary of it a few weeks ago.) There's no guarantee the bill will survive the inevitable negotiations in the House and...

16 Sep 2021 The 411 on President Biden’s “American Families Plan”

Posted at 16:16h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, MSFP

A little over a year ago I wrote a Brief about the tax plan Joe Biden was proposing during his campaign to be the Democrat nominee for President. Here we are, 13 short month later, and the White House has unveiled their new "American Families...

26 Aug 2021 Marvs, Doggydoors, and Conveniences Worth Paying For

Posted at 15:17h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, MSFP

One morning earlier this week I was outside with Olly waiting on him to do his, ahem, "business." I was running up against the time the kids and I leave for school. Nervous, I glanced down at my watch while thinking to myself, "There's got to...

05 Aug 2021 What If We Don’t Know Our Future?

Posted at 19:22h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, MSFP

Last week, Jared wrote about the future, specifically, the risk that the reality of the future we imagine might disappoint us: "You may fail to reach your goals, no matter how hard you work. Or, perhaps worse, you may reach your goals and find them...